Well, maybe not Lazarus, but my server has come back from the dead. After two trips to CompUSA and one trip to Fry’s, the server is back in service. While I did have a hard drive fail, the fix was not as simple as replacing a hard drive. That is the way I started. I put a little bit of thought into server design and what that means for future expansion. It also meant a complete wipe of the good drive and a complete reinstall of Windows Home Server. I now have a smaller 160 GB, but dedicated, drive for the OS. I will eventually have two 500 GB drive for the storage pool. Right now it is just one drive. I will add the second once I get it back from Seagate. This will leave two bays, and SATA ports, for expansion. I had originally filled thosw with two new 500 GB drives. That was CompUSA trip one. Once I knew my data was lost I started rethinking the design of the server. I had a greater understanding of how WHS worked and decided it was best to have a smaller IDE drive for the OS. That was CompUSA trip number two. That would leave all four SATA ports to be part of the storage pool. Two of those are initially filled. The last two are expansion as I fill up the server. Those drive will most likely be 1 TB drives, but time will tell. The Fry’s trip was to get a converter to hook up the drive via a USB port. It is a very handy tool that has already been used several times. I will need to return to CompUSA a third time to return the first two drives I bought there. Sorry guys. I plan of getting a KVM switch while I am there too. I had a spare keyboard and mouse for the server diagnostics, but I did not have a spare monitor. Next time it will not matter. I will have the switch.
The local computers are now attached to the server and have been backed up. That is the most important thing. getting the computers backed up. Everything else is just gravy.
I should have a lot of time on my hands pretty soon. I plan on delving more into the WHS OS, taking online courses at the University of Phoenix, passing my MCSE, solving the Arab – Isreali conflict, and the energy crisis too. Afer doing all that I’ll see if I can manage to paint a couple rooms in the house, finish painting Crisana’s furniture, and a few other odd jobs Debbi has in store. I think we better start picking colors soon.
